27 May
2022
27 May
'22
2:53 a.m.
Awe are a little drifting from core UNIX but FWIW: With the noise made
about the ACM DL is more freely available and the 'advertisement' they sent
saying the earliest UNIX paper was now there for anyone to examine (from
the 1973 SOSP), I just tried to download both without signing in and with
-- I got the same result. You get the abstract - not the paper which was
a tad disappointing. FWIW: from the SOSP was Jerry Popek's famous paper on
requirements for VM -- same result.
I understand the problem, (USENIX also has the same one) but it seems like
if they are going to scan things, scan all of it, not just the abstract.
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On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 4:40 PM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> If you’re
a *current* member of these societies then you should have
good access to journal
content.
I believe this is true for ACM, but for IEEE not
so much. You have to pay
for a digital library membership _in addition to_ your
standard membership
ACM is the same. At $99/year membership is a bargain by ordinary
professional society standards. But they charge an additional $99 for
access to 21st-century Digital Library.content.
Doug